Word: misrepresentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CBS was also hit by a potentially more costly problem last week: a $ 120 million libel suit filed by General William Westmoreland. The suit is the latest upshot of a controversial Jan. 23 documentary titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception. The 90-min. program charged that Westmoreland, while...
And last week Haig showed that bureaucratic wars and influence jockeying don't stop even during events like presidential shootings. After telling an impromptu press conference that he was "in control" after Reagan "took a round" in his left side, Haig proceeded to misrepresent the presidential line of succession. Characterisitcally...
And in emphasizing dichotomy between the church and the revolution, the play simplifies and even misinterprets other factors in the peasants' struggle against oppression. In particular, the image of the purity and impartiality of the church seems to grossly misrepresent the past or present realities of life in Central America...
The Church Committee revealed the extent to which intelligence agencies, primarily the Central Intelligence Agency, were involved in clandestine and covert relationships with both academic institutions and individual academics. In 1976 we said that the report confirmed that "...Universities and scholars have been paid to lie about the sources of...
The pressure to produce has led some Enquirer staffers to misrepresent themselves or their publication to gain access to people or places. One reporter tried to pass herself off as a tourist with a broken-down car when she went to see Warren Beatty in late 1978, hoping to find...